Most of the rain on the grassland came very suddenly, and when the rainstorm came, it was so strong that it hit the grass paper, crackling, and bending the back of the grass. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Early in the morning, Zhao Gu woke up to the sound of rain, and as soon as he opened his eyes, his eyes immediately shot bursts of brilliance.

"Come on, prepare for a decisive battle!" Zhao Gu followed and said loudly.

The soldiers did not know why, but they still faithfully carried out his orders, and 20,000 infantry immediately stood by in front of the trenches dug before, their spears stretched out, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

The cavalrymen got on their horses, ready to charge at any time, and the horses under their crotches also felt the smoke of this war, and their hooves kept beating on the ground, and the car started with a shocking sound.

The archers were on standby, bending their bows and arrows, and letting the rain beat against them, and all of them remained wide-eyed, refusing to let go of any movement.

Ergouzi walked into the handsome tent in such an environment, but seeing that Zhao Gu was also wearing armor, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Big brother, how can you be sure that Li Jiqian will launch a decisive battle today?" ”

Zhao Gu glanced at him: "Let me ask you, what is the basis for our Shenwei Thunderbolt to ignite?" ”

"That's fire, of course!" The second dog replied as a matter of course. At the end, he still looked at Zhao Gu ignorantly.

Zhao Gu couldn't help but be a little speechless, if Li Danran was here, he must have understood what he meant, but Ergouzi had to let him understand everything.

But this is his own brother, and Zhao Gu can only patiently answer: "What is the fire most afraid of?" Of course it's water, and now it's raining heavily, doesn't it just give Li Jiqian a chance? ”

Then the second dog suddenly realized: "I know, then I will immediately go down to strengthen the vigilance with the brothers." ”

Zhao Gu nodded, took the steamed bun handed over by the guards and nibbled on it, and after eating, he entered the army to check the preparation of the soldiers.

If someone with a careful heart is in Zhao Gu's army at this time, he will definitely find a problem, that is, every soldier has three divine power thunderbolts hanging on his armor chest, and even in this heavy rainy day, no one has taken it off.

Isn't gunpowder not afraid of getting wet?

Hehe, it can only be said that gunpowder is afraid of water, a problem that even Li Jiqian, a layman, can think of, is it possible for Zhao Gu to ignore it?

In fact, since the Northern Expedition last year, Zhao Gu has made further changes to the Shenwei Thunderbolt, at this time the Shenwei Thunderbolt made by the Great Song Dynasty no longer needs to be lit by an open flame, but placed two very small flintstones inside its fireball, once the Shenwei Thunderbolt is thrown, it falls on the ground and collides violently, and the two flint and steel stones will rub up and down, thereby generating sparks and triggering the explosion of the Shenwei Thunderbolt.

Naturally, this new version of the Kamui Thunderbolt is not afraid of rain, and it only takes a spark for the Kamui Thunderbolt to ignite, so there is no such thing as whether oxygen is needed in the sealed iron ball.

And because the iron ball is completely sealed, once the gunpowder inside is ignited, the explosion will be much more powerful than the previous version.

It's a pity that Li Jiqian can't know this, so it is destined that if he despises Zhao Gu, he will definitely suffer a loss.

Half an hour later, the rain became heavier and heavier, and it was no longer possible to see the distant scene from ten meters away, and people could only see a curtain of water like a waterfall as far as the eye could see.

Seeing this, Zhao Gu also had some admiration for Li Jiqian, as a grassland man, he could anticipate today's weather, and take advantage of the situation to attack, it was really clever, presumably even if Xia Weibing did not solve the problem of Yi Dechao, and Mi Dechao and Li Jiqian had been facing each other for a long time, they would be defeated sooner or later.

Of course, if he didn't attack today, it would mean that Li Jiqian's opponent's ability was really limited and he was not worthy of being Zhao Gu's opponent.

Facts have proved that the person who can be the lord of a country in the Western Xia Kingdom, Li Jiqian's ability is indeed good.

Just when Zhao Gu was secretly guessing whether Li Jiqian would make a move, a shocking sound of horses' hooves sounded in front of the army, and it was obvious that Li Jiqian's army was coming.

Because of the rain curtain, it was difficult for Zhao Gu to judge how many people the Western Xia army had come, so he smiled faintly and gave the order to attack.

I saw that in the Great Song army, three thousand archers fired arrows in unison, and the sound of 'poof' sounded in the heavy rain, directly overshadowing the sound of the vigorous heavy rain falling.

Three thousand arrows shot through the rain curtain and headed straight ahead, and a short time ago there was a burst of wailing, which was the scream of the Western Xia soldiers after they were shot.

Immediately followed by the rain of arrows was the Great Song Dynasty's artifact of the earthquake army-the chain crossbow.

Adapted from their predecessors by the Song people, it took two people to launch, and the arrows fired were as thick as an adult's arm, easily piercing the bodies of enemies hundreds of meters away, and if they were lucky, they could also pierce them in strings.

In the usual battles, the Great Song Dynasty relied on this sharp weapon, I don't know how many enemies it had killed, this kind of Great Song Dynasty crossbow was also a breakthrough in the military industry of the Great Song Dynasty, and its power was far better than the crossbow arrows of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and it was naturally better than the surrounding countries.

And in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, which Zhao Gu was familiar with in later generations, the reason why the Great Song Dynasty was able to survive for many years under the attacks of the Liao State, Dajin, and Mongolia was precisely because they had this powerful repeater.

Especially in such a flat place on the grassland, the power of this repeater has been exerted to the extreme, because when the Western Xia soldiers attacked, there was no danger to defend in front, and naturally there was nothing to resist the crossbow arrows issued by the repeater, and the Western Xia soldiers could only pray that they would not be shot by the repeater, otherwise they would either die or be injured.

The power of the repeater is naturally not comparable to ordinary bows and arrows, just listen to the sound of 'woo', one by one the crossbows rushed out like lightning, and disappeared in an instant, and the screams of the Xixia soldiers in front of them also became bigger and bigger with the addition of the repeater.

This wave of arrows and crossbow arrows alone is afraid that it will directly take the lives of thousands of Western Xia soldiers, while the Great Song side has not suffered any casualties for the time being.

Zhao Gu didn't rejoice, after all, the Western Xia counterattack might be coming soon.

Sure enough, after the arrow rain of the Great Song Dynasty fell, the arrow rain of Western Xia followed suit, and Zhao Gu hurriedly ordered the soldiers to defend.

The infantry at the front of the team took out their shields and stacked them on top of each other, and soon formed a huge iron shield to protect the soldiers under the shield.

The equipment of the Great Song army is still very sophisticated, so this wave of arrow rain in Western Xia did not cause substantial damage to the Great Song Dynasty, although some arrows passed through the gap between the shield and the shield, and also killed some people, but compared to the 50,000 army, it is nothing.